Jennie Formby Biography
Jennie Formby (born: Jennifer Sandle) is a British trade unionist and politician. She serves as the General Secretary of the Labour Party after succeeding Iain McNicol in April 2018. She is a former political director south-east England regional secretary for Unite the Union.
Formby attended Bath High School for Girls then St Helen and St Katharine boarding school in Abingdon which was paid for by the Royal Navy. She left school with 10 O levels and 3 A levels, but chose not to go to university.
Jennie Formby Age
Jennifer Sandle was born on 12 April 1960 in London England. She is 59 years old as of 2019.
Jennie Formby Family
Jennie’s father served in the Royal Navy in Korea, Suez and Lebanon. She was raised with an older brother and sister in Malta, Bath ans Salisbury.
Jennie Formby Husband
Jennie married Freddie Formby in 2000. The couple has two children together and they adopted a third one. She also had a child with Len McCluskey in 1991.
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Jennie Formby Breast Cancer
In March 2019, Formby revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and she was to begin her treatment in the same month. She emailed MPs and peers on 25 March 2019 disclosing the news. She further stated that she was to start treatment.
Jennie Formby Trade Union
She became a trade unionist when she began her working life in Salisbury at the bookmakers William Hill in the late 1970s. Formby became a branch secretary in Unite’s predecessor, the Transport and General Workers’ Union. She then later worked for BOC in Southampton, where she became a union shop steward.
In 1988, Jennie became a Transport and General Workers’ Union regional officer. She then represented a Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust nurse in a ground-breaking employment tribunal case in 2004. The black nurse had suffered racial discrimination by being banned from caring for a white baby. In 2004, she became the union’s national officer for the food, drink and also tobacco sector. Formby was appointed Unite’s political director in 2013. She moved to the post of regional secretary in south-east England in March 2016.
Jennie Formby Labour
She has been a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party since late 2011. There, she was considered to represent the thinking of Unite general secretary Len McCluskey.
She announced she was a candidate to become General Secretary of the Labour Party, shortly after the incumbent, Iain McNicol, resigned in February 2018. Her main rival was Jon Lansman and he dropped out of contention on 11 March, making him then frontrunner. Formby was appointed to the role taking office in April 2018.
Jennie Formby Salary
Formby has made a big name with her incredible work in the Government. However, her salary is not yet disclosed.
Formby Net Worth
Formby’s net worth is not yet revealed.
Formby Twitter
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